rolling baseball book thread 2007

I finished The Echoing Green about a month ago. Quite an epic, if a bit purply & overwritten at times.

Hitting shelves this week, It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: the Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book:

"Here is just a small portion of the lineup you can find packed into our weighty but concise 400 pages:

Clay Davenport gets the final word in small ball vs. power offenses, thanks to Leo Durocher and the 1951 Giants.

Christina Kahrl on the hyper-creative managers of the 1970s, “the men who ate Gene Mauch’s lunch.”

Jay Jaffe on the Dodgers’ race to beat the Braves in 1959 and why a Milwaukee dynasty that had every reason to happen didn’t.

Kevin Goldstein on the four aces player development dealt the Royals in 1984.

Nate Silver projecting how the wartime pennant races would have played out if the major leaguers had stayed home.

Rany Jazayerli on the 1984 Tigers and the meaning of the fast start.
Steven Goldman on the Carthaginian peace George Steinbrenner inflicted on his own farm system, starting with a little-remembered slugger named Otto Velez.

Guest-star turns from Allen Barra, author of The Last Coach, Alex Belth and Cliff Corcoran of Bronx Banter, and Kevin Baker, author of Sometimes You See It Coming."